Live auction - brm_990532 - PAPIRIA Denier
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Live starting : Type : Denier
Date: 121 AC.
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 3,86 g.
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, centré des deux côtés. Joli portrait de Rome. Patine grise avec de légers reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
B.7 - BMC/RR.449 pl. 92/2 (Italy) - CRR.415 (1) - RRC.279 /1 - RSC.7 - RCV.154 (224$) - MRK.1040 - MRR.958 - RBW.1102
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête casquée de Rome à droite ; derrière la tête, marque de valeur, X.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ROMA DANS UN CARTOUCHE À L’EXERGUE ; CARB AU-DESSUS DU CARTOUCHE.
Reverse description : Jupiter dans un quadrige galopant à droite brandissant un foudre de la main droite et tenant un sceptre et les rênes de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Roma/ Carbo”, (Rome/ Carbo).
Historical background
PAPIRIA
(121 BC)
We must identify our coiner with the consul of 113 BC Cnæus Papirius Carbo who could be the brother of Marcus Papirius Carbo, coiner in 122 BC. They could then be the sons of Caius Papirius Carbo, the consul from 120 BC In 121 BC, the two consuls were Lucius Opimius and Quintus Fabius Maximus. Caius Gracchus was assassinated while for the first time the "senatus consultum ultimum" was used, an exceptional procedure which gives full powers to the consuls. The consul, Lucius Opimius, has the supporters of the tribune of the plebs executed. Cneius Domitius Ahenobarbus and Quintus Fabius Maximus, the second consul won a brilliant victory over the Allobroges and the Arvernes. The Arverne King Bituit is defeated.
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